0 Pacific Sea Nettle

Animal Unique | Pacific Sea Nettle |This jelly is also known as West Coast Sea Nettle. Sea nettles have a distinctive golden ring with a reddish tint. The bell can grow to be larger than one meter in diameter in the wild, although most are less than 50 cm in diameter. The long, spiral, white oral arms and tentacles to 24 wavy auburn trail far behind the 3.6 to 4.6 m. For the man, its sting is often annoying but rarely dangerous. Pacific sea nettle is often found along the coasts of California and Oregon, although some live in the northern waters of the Gulf of Alaska, west of the seas around Japan and south to the Baja peninsula. Populations reach their peak during late summer.

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Cnidaria
Subphylum:     Medusozoa
Class:     Scyphozoa
Order:     Semaeostomeae
Family:     Pelagiidae
Genus:     Chrysaora
Species:     C. fuscescens

Pacific sea nettle has proven very popular for display at public aquariums are by their bright colors and relatively easy maintenance. It is possible to culture Chrysaora polyps and in captivity. When provided appropriate aquarium conditions, the medusae do well in captivity. The colorful animal is squishy and round and has what seems at first to have long legs. Pacific sea nettle has a golden brown top with bell or around a reddish hue. The bubble can reach a foot (30 cm) in diameter and is 24 deep red tentacles hanging from the edge of the. The long edges white arms hanging from the center of the clock are the oral arms, which are used in food. These arms may trail behind the bell for about 10 feet (3 m).

Pacific sea nettles can not hunt their prey. They eat when they drive. Spread their tentacles like a big net, the nettles catch food as it floats by them. Prey includes fish eggs, fry, adult fish, jellies and other small floating animals. When prey brushes against a sea nettle, thousands of nematocysts, or stinging barbs on its tentacles explode, launching barbed stingers into the victim. A crippling poison is injected from the stingers. The oral arms act as a digestive organ for prey too large to fit into his mouth.

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0 Atlantic Sea Nettle

Animal Unique | Atlantic Sea Nettle | Atlantic sea nettle known as the East Coast sea nettle. It's a kind of jellyfish that inhabits estuaries Atlantic. It is smaller than the Pacific sea nettle, and has more color variable but usually pale pink or yellowish, often with bright colored stripes on the deeper exumbrella, especially near the margin. Sea nettles live on both sides of the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic sea nettle is radially symmetrical, marine, and carnivorous. Her mouth is located in the center of one end of the body, which opens to a gastro vascular cavity used for digestion. It has tentacles that surround the mouth to catch food.

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Cnidaria
Subphylum:     Medusozoa
Class:     Scyphozoa
Order:     Semaeostomeae
Family:     Pelagiidae
Genus:     Chrysaora
Species:     C. quinquecirrha

Swimming bell of the Atlantic sea nettles up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) in diameter, but most are much smaller sea nettles. The edges of the pool are bell-shaped petal. A large tentacle comes out between the leaves, and twice as many small tentacles emerge from under the petals. Eight sense alternative structures are present in spaces between the petals. The narrow oral arms are long and thin. The colors of Medusae vary from milky white to white with purple-red stripes radiating to the bell.

Atlantic sea nettle medusae swim continuously in slow circles. They constantly feed. The life cycle of sea nettles have both a polyp and a medusa stage. The release of eggs and sperm takes place around dawn. Stinging sea nettles are carnivorous. They generally feed on zooplankton, ctenophores, other jellies, and sometimes crustaceans. Nettles immobilize and obtain their prey using their stinging tentacles. Then the prey is transported to the gastro-vascular cavity where it is later consumed. Nettles also eat young minnows, bay anchovy eggs, worms and mosquito larvae.

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0 Mauve Stinger

Animal Unique | Mauve Stinger | Mauve Stinger is a small pelagic jellyfish usually pink, mauve or brown in color, with a phosphorescent bubble measuring 3-12 cm in diameter in adult specimens, whose edge is provided with slip and tentacles, the nematocysts of this species studied the tentacles, oral arms and the top of the bell. Mauve Stinger has direct development, so the bike does not consist of the benthic scyphistoma stage.

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Cnidaria
Subphylum:     Medusozoa
Class:     Scyphozoa
Order:     Semaeostomeae
Family:     Pelagiidae
Genus:     Pelagia
Species:     P. noctiluca

This species has a wide distribution, in general, this is indicated as typical for hot water, but the flow can enter the temperate and cold seas, so it can be found in tropical areas and in colder regions like the North Atlantic and Pacific Ocean to the north, it does not seem to be about 42 ° S and is vertically divided, mainly between 150 m depth and the surfactant, but during the day can also be found between 300 and 500 m, with a maximum of 1,400 m.

This jellyfish produces bioluminescent light shows, which are often admired by passing boats, but it also has a ferocious reputation as a stinger. As well as having eight stinging tentacles, covered with small red spots that are bundles of stinging cells. The sting is painful but not dangerous. The Mauve Stinger glows by producing clear mucus from the surface of cells as it knocked or disturbed by the waves. Hanging down from the underside of the mushroom-shaped bell, four long, frilly oral lobes, which are sometimes called oral arms. These are stinging cells that paralyze and entangle small planktonic animals. Sticky mucus keeps the prey, which is then transferred to slots in the arms and mouth.

Unlike most jellyfish, the life cycle of the Mauve Stinger not a fixed stage. Eggs and sperm are shed into the water where the eggs are fertilized and develop into small, oval Planula larvae covered with hairlike cilia. Planula the larva turns directly into a small, lobed, saucer-shaped medusa called a Ephyra, which gradually develops into an adult. It is known that jellyfish stings can cause both local and general symptoms and can sometimes be fatal to humans. In general, however, jellyfish stings usually cause a mild local dermatitis so severe or fatal systemic reactions are rare.

 
Mauve Stinger stabbing are usually limited to the skin surface and only erythematous, edematous, and vesicular lesions up to date, because of local pain which lasts 1-2 weeks, while systemic or cutaneous infections are rare complications. Serious consequences can be produced by immunological and / or toxic mechanisms. It was reported that Mauve Stinger probably identificated as recurrent and more severe rash caused more than ten days after envenomation

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0 Crystal Jellyfish

Animal Unique | Crystal Jellyfish | Crystal jellyfish is bioluminescent hydrozoan  jellyfish, or hydro medusa. Crystal jellyfish can be found along the coast of North America from the Pacific Ocean from the Bering Sea to southern California. Crystal jellyfish is a pelagic organism, which is germinated in a soil-dwelling polyp in late spring. It can be found swimming and floating both near shore and off shore in the eastern Pacific.

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Subkingdom:     Eumetazoa
Phylum:     Cnidaria
Subphylum:     Medusozoa
Class:     Hydrozoa
Subclass:     Leptolinae
Order:     Leptomedusae
Suborder:     Conica
Family:     Aequoreidae
Genus:     Aequorea
Species:     A. victoria

 

Crystal jellyfish is eaten by Lion's Mane Jelly, and ctenophores, siphonophora or hydromedusae, including documented cases of cannibalism. Much larger specimens are found with the parasitic amphipod hyperiid Hyperia medusarum confirmed the either or subumbrella exumbrella, these amphipods may burrow into the gel, but such activities do not kill the jellyfish.

Crystal jellyfish can be quite difficult to distinguish, as the morphological features on which the identifications are made are usually the numbers of tentacles, the number of radial channels, the number of marginal statocysts, and size. Another type is occasionally found in the same geographical area as Aequorea victoria, it's another form called Aequorea coerulescens. While A. coerulescens is apparently generally found at sea in the eastern Pacific, rare specimens have been collected in central California and in Friday Harbor, North Puget Sound. While morphologically similar to Aequorea victoria, the Aequorea coerulescens form is larger (about the size of a plate), with more radial channels. Animals of intermediate size between these two forms are also quite intermediate in appearance, making morphological identification difficult.

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0 Lion's Mane Jellyfish

 

Animal Unique | Lion's Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) | Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. Giant Jellyfish or Winter Jellyfish are other name of this creature. Its range is confined to cold, boreal waters of the Arctic, northern Atlantic, and northern Pacific Oceans. It is seldom found farther south than 42°N latitude. Similar jellyfish, which may be the same species, are known to inhabit seas near Australia and New Zealand. You can find them living either deep beneath the ocean surface or just below the surface of the ocean water.

This jellyfish has a large with broad bell flattened at top. It has many arms, with tentacles in 8 clusters on 8 primary lobes. Color and size vary based on the area. It can be pinkish, yellow and orange-brown, or dark brown and red. The Lion's mane jellyfish can grow to a size of more than two meters in diameter. They have a powerful sting and will reel in their prey with their sticky tentacles. 

The jellyfish themselves feed mostly on zooplankton, small fish, ctenophores, and moon jellies. Predators of the lion's mane jellyfish include seabirds, larger fish, other jellyfish species, and sea turtles. Lion's mane jellyfish can sting. Thus, you should avoid with lion's mane jellyfish if possible and especially during the peak of their population inencounters the late summer and fall. 

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0 Sea Wasp or Box Jellyfish

Animal Unique | Sea Wasp (Chironex flecker) | Sea wasp or Box Jellyfish or Box Fish is the most poisonous sea creature than stone fish, sharks or sea snakes. Even it is a beautiful jelly, it has killed more people than other marine. Box jellyfish are usually found in shallow waters. If you see sea waps at the sea, you are not allowed to do any water activites. They live in coastal waters from northern Australia and New Guinea north to the Philippines and Vietnam.

The Box jellyfish has a large transparent bell or cube like body. They are divided into some segments. They have a transparent body with a pale blue color. It has stinging tentacles. Each tentacle on a box jellyfish can have up to 5000 of these nematocysts. The box jellyfish uses these tentacles to catch its prey, example small fish and crustaceans. Box jellyfish is, unlike many other jellyfish, equipped with four eyes. Eyes are connected to a nerve ring and the creature can take evasive action or move towards its prey. Two of the eyes in the set detect only light. It has no brain, no heart and no blood.

 

Sea wasps feed on small crustaceans and small fish. These animals have strategy to catch their prey. They will wait for the prey to bump into their tentacles. Then, they will killed then by stinging them with their stong poison in tentacles. But, sea turtles are not affected by their sting. Sea turtle are their predator. In most cases, the sting of the sea waps does not cause death, but it always has the potential to do so.

 

 

In fact, the jellyfish, even the most venomous, releases such a small amount of venom that it rarely causes death. However, each sting can be extremely painful and requires immediate medical attention. In the cases of the worst stings, anti-venom may be applied. You can do first aid when you stinged by sea waps. First, washing the sting area with vinegar, and in no circumstance should alcohol, alcohol-based lotions, or methylated spirits be applied. Then, CPR may be required. Last, medical help should be sought as soon as possible after considering these needs.

 

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0 Moon Jellyfish

 

Animal Unique | Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) | Jellyfish are known as insects in Sponge Bob. They also sting. Similarly, the facts jellyfish are stinging animals. One type of jellyfish is Moon jellyfish. They known as the Common jellyfish. Moon Jelly and Saucer jelly. You can find them in almost all oceans of the world. They live mostly in warm and tropical waters. They in both near shore and the ocean. They are usually seen in large numbers. They are commonly found in North America and Europe. Moon jellyfish are invertebrates belong to the phylum Cnidaria. They are no vertebrate animals. Phylum Cnidaria includes corals, sea anemones, sea whips, sea pens, hydras, Portuguese man-of-war and sea fan corals. 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Cnidaria
Class:     Scyphozoa
Order:     Semaeostomeae
Family:     Ulmaridae
Genus:     Aurelia
Species:     A. aurita

Moon jellyfish are multicellular animals. They have two layers of cells (diploblastic) and radially symmetrical organisms. Although they are looked weak, jellyfish equipped with a special tool called nematocysts, or stinging cells on their tentacles. They use it to sting and to capture the prey. Beside the tentacles, the main part of the moon jellyfish is the bell. Moon jellyfish bell is about between 5 to 40 cm. The bell often has stripe or spot patterns. It is opaque or transparent. The easiest way to recognize the jellyfish is that by recognizing the four horseshoe-shaped gonads present on the bell.  

 

Moon jellyfish are carnivorous animals. Their main food is small plankton called zooplankton. They also eat animal molluscs, rotifers, nematods, diatoms, larval fish, skinned larvae, crustaceans, and protozoa. During capturing the prey, nematocysts or  stinging cells play an important role. Stinging cells are capable for injecting venom. When the tentacles reach the prey, the cells will launch the venom into the prey's body. The cells are also used as defense from predators. They will extend their tentacles when predators approach them. However, few animals known to be immune of their poison like turtles sea turtles, which are also their predators. 

 

Moon jellyfish are usually found on the beach during the summer when high waves and strong winds. At the time, their tentacles are broken and worn out. So, do not touch their tentacles, because it can sting you. So, you can hold the bell. Moon jellyfish species normally do not sting humans. Their tentacles are used to sting their prey. You do not have to be worry because most of them are harmless (only a few are poisonous). If you get stung, it will hurt. You can use some vinegar or urine to reduce the pain. This method has proven quite effective in treating a jellyfish sting jellyfish. 

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0 Portuguese Man o' War

 

Animal Unique | Portuguese Man o' War | Portuguese Man o' War, actually are not true jellyfish even the physical appearance is like a jellyfish. They are not a single creature, but colony of individuals called zooids. The name 'Man of War' is obtained from the similarity of his upper body, with Portuguese battleship with a sail.  They are also known as Blue Bottle Jellyfish. Their color can range from a blue to a pink hue, with a translucent body. Portuguese Man o' War is often found with a variety of fish, including shepherd fish, clownfish and yellow jacket species rarely found elsewhere. The clownfish can swim among the tentacles with impunity, possibly due to the mucus that does not cause the nematocysts. The shepherd fish seem to avoid the larger, stinging tentacles, but feeds on the smaller tentacles below the gas bladder.

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Cnidaria
Class:     Hydrozoa
Order:     Siphonophora
Family:     Physaliidae
Genus:     Physalia
Species:     P. physalis

Portuguese Man o' War consists of four separate polyps. The top polyp, pneumatophor, is filled of gas. Therefore, it floats on water.  Three other polyps known as: dactylozooid (functioning as a defense), gonozooid (functioning for reproduction) and gastrozooid (functioning to eat). Another part of the Bluebottle jellyfish is a tentacle. Tentacles are thin and long. They can reach 30 feet. The tentacles are covered with nematocysts are full of poison to paralyze and kill fish and other small creatures. It eats small fish and other small ocean animals that is stings with its long tentacles. The poison in the stingers paralyzes the prey, which the  Bluebottle then eats.

 

Portuguese Man o' War  live most commonly in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Indian oceans, and the northern Atlantic Gulf Stream, although found in warm seas throughout the world. There are few marine animals that are immune to the sting Portuguese Man o' War. One example is the sea turtle. Sea turtles immune to the stings Portuguese Man o' War because their skins and shells are too thick to be stung by Portuguese Man o' War. Moreover, it turns out Man of War into the turtle's favorite food menu list of sea turtles. Sea slug, Glaucus atlanticus, Violet snail, Janthina janthina, Blanket octopus and Ocean Sunfish are other predators of Bluebottle jellyfish.

 

For humans, Portuguese Man o' War sting was very painful, and sometimes caused death. In Australia, Portuguese Man o' War is responsible for up to 10,000 human stings in Australia every summer, especially on the east coast, the coast of South Australia and Western Australia. Portuguese Man o' War cause fever, shock as well as heart and lung problems. If you're stung by Portuguese Man o' War pick off any visible tentacles, then rinse with fresh or salt water. Put ice on the area. Because you might go into shock it is important to get medical help as soon as possible. The toxins from tentacles are about 75 percent as powerful as cobra venom. Even dead Bluebottle jellyfish stranded on the beach and dead, it can still sting so don't touch them.

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0 White Spotted Jellyfish

Animal Unique | White Spotted Jellyfish | White spotted jellyfish is a native of Australia and is also known as the Australian spotted jellyfish. White-spotted jellyfish is one of the most beautiful jellyfish in the world. Its has unique appearance with white spotted on its bell. White-spotted jellyfish is easily recognized by the large, semi-transparent, rounded bell covered in regularly spaced, white dots. The trailing tentacles also end in whitened spots. It grows to the size of about 45-50 centimeters in diameter, and is occasionally known to grow to a maximum length of just a little over 60 centimeters in size.

They look extremely beautiful with the design of white spots over their translucent gelatinous body and their frilly oral arms add another aspect of charm to their appearance. They live in oceans and coastal waters. You can found them throughout Australia. White-spotted jellyfish has been found in large numbers in Gulf of Mexico

White spotted jellyfish have two stage life cycle which consists of a medusa stage (adult) and a polyp stage (juvenile). In the medusa stage, male jellyfish release sperm into the water column and the female jellyfish gathers the sperm into her mouth where she holds the eggs. Once fertilization occurs and larvae are formed they leave their mother and settle to the ocean floor. Once on the bottom a polyp form occurs and this form reproduces asexually by “cloning” or dividing itself into other polyps. Jellyfish can live for up to five years in the polyp stage and up to two years in the medusa stage.

White spotted jellyfish primarily feed zooplankton.  However, they also consume plankton and the eggs and larvae of important fish species. This fact cause problem and need to be concerned. Each of them can filter as much as 13,200 gallons of sea water per day. While doing that, it ingests the plankton that native species need. Additionally, white spotted jellyfish are fairly harmless and their sting contains only mild venom which does not cause any serious effect or reaction in humans. Vinegar can cure the little burning sensation that may be caused by the sting. In most cases, just washing the location of the sting with salt water is sufficient measure to rid oneself of the minor effects of the white spotted jellyfish sting.

White-spotted Jellyfish is causing a problem overseas, particularly in the Caribbean region. It may have hitched a ride in ships' ballast tanks, travelling from Australia and the Pacific region to the Caribbean. Here, it found an ideal place to breed, free of their natural predators (various Pacific-region snails).

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